Reflections Week 2

Reflections Week 2

This may make me little bias but one organization that I think we should all look at some time is the National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET) is the only national membership organization dedicated solely to meeting the needs of special education teachers and those preparing for the field of special education teaching. But not only special education it’s a place where we can go and find out types of technology that can help students as I stated earlier in my blog everyone has some type of disability and if the teachers home in on that disability we can make a better impact on the students education. In addition, this brings us to the main topic of students with disabilities we look at assistive technology. Its an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them

NASET Link

http://www.naset.org/

Another organization is very important to help align us with other countries and ensure that if there is technology in another part of the work we are interacting with that technology as well for example Facebook and Google are a notional technology that is used all around the world. The organization International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) is put in place just to do that it is a nonprofit professional organization with a worldwide membership of leaders and potential leaders in educational technology. We are dedicated to providing leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in K–12 education and teacher education.

The link is

http://www.iste.org/welcome.aspx

And of course we cannot forget EDUCAUSE this is an all in one type organization that brings any new technology in higher education and brings it to lite as well as hold conferences and post jobs in those fields of technology.

The link is

http://www.educause.edu/